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Disable Microsoft Edge Pre-launching in Windows 10

Windows 10 comes with a new default browser, Microsoft Edge. It's a Universal app which has extension support, a fast rendering engine and a simplified user interface. In this article, we will see how to prevent the Edge app from automatically starting with the OS when you didn't open it.

As you may already know, Microsoft Edge has a background process which starts with Windows, and remains running when you close the browser. This allows the browser to start faster, and increases its performance and responsiveness.

If you are not a Microsoft Edge user, and prefer an alternative app instead, you might want to get rid of that pre-loader process. Starting in Windows 10 Build 17723, there is a new option that can be used to disable the process. Here is how.

To disable Microsoft Edge pre-launching in Windows 10, do the following.

Here, create a new 32-bit DWORD value AllowPrelaunch. Note: Even if you are running 64-bit Windows, you still need to use a 32-bit DWORD as the value type. Leave its value data as 0 to disable the preloader process.

To make the changes done by the Registry tweak take effect, you need to sign out and sign in again to your user account.

Later, you can delete the AllowPrelaunch value to restore defaults.

Disable Microsoft Edge pre-launching in Windows 10 for all users

To disable the Microsoft Edge pre-launching feature for all users, ensure that you are signed in as Administrator before proceeding.

About Sergey Tkachenko

Sergey Tkachenko is a software developer from Russia who started Winaero back in 2011. On this blog, Sergey is writing about everything connected to Microsoft, Windows and popular software. Follow him on Facebook, Twitter or Google+.